The following resolutions, passed by the Management Committee, were submitted and approved:— 1. That the Management Committee of the Football League be instructed to arrange with such Leagues as they think necessary that all players registered by the clubs of the various Leagues should be respected as retained players until the 7th day of August next, and that no contracts be entered into with players prior to the 2nd of August, 1915. 2. The clubs of the Football League request the Football Association to make the signing of a registration form for next season prior to 2nd August, 1915, illegal. 3. That the rules of the League be suspended, so far as is necessary, until after the next conference between the three Leagues—Football League, Southern League, and Scottish League—and that the officials of the League remain in office until the next annual meeting, which shall be called on a date subsequent to such conference. The following letter was read from Colonel C. F. Grantham, commanding the 17th (Service) Battalion, the Duke of Cambridge's Own Middlesex Regiment (Football):— White City, Shepherd's Bush, W., 26th March, 1915. GENTLEMEN,—As the officer commanding the Foot- ballers' Battalion it is my duty to bring the following facts to your notice. You are aware that some little time ago there was much controversy in the papers with regard to the manner in which the professional football player had failed in his duty by not coming forward to serve his country in its time of stress. The laxity of the football professionals and their following amounted to almost a public scandal. Mr. Joynson Hicks, M.P., therefore raised the Footballers' Battalion, and public opinion died down under the belief that most if not all of the available professionals had joined the Battalion. This is not the case, as only 122 professionals have joined. I understand that there are forty League clubs and twenty in the Southern League with an average of some thirty players fit to join the Colours, namely, 1,800. These figures speak for themselves. I am also aware and have proof that in many cases directors and managers of clubs have not only given no assistance in getting these men to join but have done their best by their actions to prevent it. I am taking the opportunity of your meeting on Monday to ask you gentlemen if you and your clubs have done every- thing in your power to point out to the men what their duty is: "Your King and Country calls upon every man who is capable of bearing arms to come forward and upon those that are unable to use their best endeavours to see that those that can do so." It is no use mincing words. If men who are fit and capable of doing so will not join, they and also those who try by their words and actions to prevent them will have to face the opinion of their fellow men publicly. I will no longer be a party to shielding the want of patriotism of these men by allowing the public to think they have joined the Football Battalion. Yours truly, (Signed) C. F. GRANTHAM.